[aarch64-port-dev ] RFR: JDK8: Merge up to jdk8u20-b16

[Andrew Haley]

On 06/06/2014 11:59 AM, Edward Nevill wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 15:43 +0100, Edward Nevill wrote:
> 
>> I appreciate that there is an increased no. of failures for hotspot over x86, however I would like to push this merge to get it off my desk and go back and look at the failures.
> 
> Just to follow up on this.
> 
> Of the 19 server hotspot failures
> 
> 1) 7 fail with the message "Type profiling not implemented on this platform", which is correct
> 2) 6 also fail on x86
> 3) 2 fail with illegal options to jmap. These two tests pass options to jmap which are no longer supported in JDK8, -heap and -F. The reason this appears to work on x86 is that the test suite does not use the correct path to the jdk under test and ends up picking up the default jdk (usually jdk7) which does support these options.
> - 1 failed with a configuration issue (the test host didn't know its own hostname).
> 
> This leaves 3 failures which I am looking into.
> 
> FAILED: compiler/uncommontrap/TestSpecTrapClassUnloading.java
> FAILED: compiler/whitebox/IsMethodCompilableTest.java
> FAILED: gc/metaspace/TestPerfCountersAndMemoryPools.java
> 
> The following patch patches the exclude file to exclude the tests under 1,2 & 3 above.

I'm a little bit nervous about allowing this one through right now because
we're building OS packages.  (And I'm sure that's not just Red Hat, but other
distros too.)  We perhaps should have a development branch.

Andrew.